Access Unsupported Console ESXi 4.0
I have tried this with ESXi 4 only since I never had a chance to play around with ESXi 3 Read more...
Restart Management Service in ESX
To restart management service in ESX login using your favorite SSH client Read more…
Power Up VMs when Licensing Server is not available
I have run into situation where I have to shutdown all my VMs including the licensing server. Of course when I was ready to power it up the error message "There are not enough licenses installed to perform the operation" In this case you would need to generate Single Host license file from you vmware licensing portal first. Make sure you are including the correct number of CPUs the host is using. Read more…
Connect to your VC with PowerShell
Every time you start your PowerShell you would use Connect-VIserver command to connect to your virtual server. You can automate this by creating a file profile.ps1. You should have VMware VI toolkit already installed. VI ToolKit Upload this file to your PowerShell Read more…
Extend *.vmdk Size
Extend vmdk file is very easy. couple of things to watch out for is make sure there is no snapshot of that VM otherwise it might get corrupt. Also the disk has to be dynamic and do not recommend to do it on OS disk. Make sure the disk is dynamic. if not, you can convert it in Disk Management. Power down the VM Login to ESX as root cd to the volume where the vmdk is located. cd /vmfs/volumes/volume- Read more…